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O’Hara: Reform flawed “step therapy” to put patients first
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A significant burden to patients – and to health care providers – is the common insurance company practice of overriding a physician’s drug recommendation and requiring a patient to use, and fail on, a lower-cost drug before it will authorize use of the more expensive, physician-preferred, drug. Known as “step therapy” – or more commonly among…